Re:Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?
by marifjeren on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:55PM
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What's your preferred alternative?
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Re:Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?
by andrewinardeer on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:58PM
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Ping?
Apparently Outlook, Gmail, etc are all working on the server at 192.168.1.1 then - ping says it's responding just fine
The snarky but honest response is HackerNews/Reddit. But if you're trying for something that actually checks the sites you point it at instead of relying on users reporting "issues", a buddy of mine runs https://onlineornot.com/ and it seems generally more reliable.
Back in the golden days you could just go to search.twitter.com, search "AWS", and sort by recent.
Re:Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?
by pacoWebConsult on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:16PM
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Still can. AWS Status pages are still terrible. See HN for the outage a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838
> Still can.
No. It requires an account now, and they did away with the recent posts firehose.
"Start Free Trial" -- uh, no thanks. You seem skeptical of crowd sourcing. Enjoy your Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Full Disclosure, this is a Cisco product and I work there.
ThousandEyes Internet Insights offers a public outage map at https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/ that is MASSIVELY more accurate (and faster to detect) than Down Detector because its based on actual telemetry and not on crowdsourcing.